Disinfecting device.



10.845,559. PATENTBD H1B. 26, 1907.

` u. E. LEE.

DISINPEGTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27. 1905.

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' To @ZZ whom it mm concern:

JOHN4 ELLWOOD LEE, OF OONSHOHOOKEN, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNoR To JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, RATION or NEW JERSEY.

OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPO- DISINFEOTING DEVICE.

Application filed November 27, 1905. Serial No. 289,323.

Be it known that I, JOHN ELLwooD LEE, a citizen of theUnited States of America, and residing in Conshohocken, county of Montgomery, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Disinfectant Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates .to that class of disinfectant devices designed to hold a quantity of'liquid disinfectant and to feed or drip the same at a desired degree ofslowness into the place desired. A

The main object of my invention is to simplil'y the construction of such a device so .that it may be filled by any one of ordinary intelligence and at the same time to increase the efIiCicncy of the device. A

In theaccompanying'drawings, Figure l represents 'a diametrical vertical sectional view of one form of my invention. Fig. 2 represents a sectional View of another form; and Fig. 3 is asectional plan on line 3 3', Fig. 2.

Referring to F ig. 1, A represents a case which, may be secured by suitable means, such as braeketsa, to the Wall. In this form the case is in the form of a cup for holding the vliquid disinfectant which flows from the inverted bottle B. A perforated inclosin ca or cover'A is fitted over on the cup an is eldin place by a spring-catch a or other convenient means 'adapted for that urpose. Around the interior of the cup, Whic is here shown as cylindrical, a felt or other absorbent materiel C extends upward to a height of several inches and is held in place by a wirenettin F. The lower part of the felt is im- -merse( or dips in .the liquid disinfectant,

which is maintained at a suitable depthsayless than an inchas will be hereinafter. described. The felt absorbs. the liquid by.V capillary attraction until the entire felt or.

pad is saturated, thereby presenting a large surface for evaporation.

Through the-- bottom of the cup A passes a tube D, the top of which is" higher than 1the normal level of the liquid. A wick D, secured near thebottom of the casing at d to prevent its being pulled out, assesthrou h the tube and conducts the iquid drop y dro to the place re uired.

'libe inverted bot `B has a slanting neck B', and the forward edg'e of this slantingneck Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Febfae, 1907.

casing itself or byv clips on the perforated cover A.

In the modification shown in Figs. 2 and 3 the casing A2 is shown as ofv rectangular section, and it may be secured to the wall by screws passing t vrough the hack. It is provided with a front cover A3, which may be hinged nearthe lower part at a2. The bottle B may be held upright by clips E and is formed with a slanting neck B', the forward edge of which rests on the bottom of the cup, as before. The absorbent material C2 is secured by Wire-netting on one or more sides and bottom of the cup. The tube D andthe wick D pass throughthe bottom, as before.

In .both forms of the apparatus the manner of use is substantially the same. The u per part or front of the casing is opened, an the cork having been removed from the slantin neck of the bottle the latter is inverted` and introduced into the casing, with the forward edge of the slanting neck resting on the bottom of the casing. The disinfectant liquid flows out into the lower part of the casing until the air is unable to enter the bottle through the upper ,part of the slanting neck, and a -seal is thu-s formed temporarily or until enough liquid runs out of the casin to permit the air to a ain enter the bottle. he felt absorbsl the isinfectant, WhichVevapcrates and passes off through the perforations in the casing. The wick D conducts the li uid through the tube D, so that the li uid falls drop b drop into the receptacle be ow.

, Ido not imit these improvements to disinfectant devices, for it is obvious thatcertain of the improvements can be used in other combinations.

.I claim as my invention- A disinfectant device comprising4 a casing ada ted to hold liquid in its lowerfpart, in compbination With a bottle having aslanting neck dipping into the liquid and resting on the bottom of said casing.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this' specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.-

JOHN ELLWOOD LEE.

Witnesses:

E. WRIGHT, -E.M. LEWIS' 

